Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester
| Museum of Science and Industry | |
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 This structure marks the entrance to the museum and reflects its science/industrial themes | |
| Established | 15 September 1983 |
| Location | 53°28′37″N 2°15′20″W / 53.47694°N 2.25556°WCoordinates: 53°28′37″N 2°15′20″W / 53.47694°N 2.25556°W |
| Type | Science museum |
| Website | www.mosi.org.uk |
The Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) in Manchester, England, is a large museum devoted to the development of science, technology, and industry and particularly the city's contributions in those areas. It is an Anchor Point of ERIH – the European Route of Industrial Heritage – and is managed as a non-departmental public body.
There are extensive displays on the theme of transport (railway locomotives and rolling stock, aircraft, and space vehicles), power (water, electricity, steam and gas engines), Manchester's sewerage and sanitation, textiles, communications and computing. The museum also offers steam train rides, hauled by a replica of "Planet", one of Robert Stephenson's Planet class steam locomotive.
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History
The museum was originally called the "North Western Museum of Science and Industry" when it opened in 1969 in temporary premises on Grosvenor Street in Chorlton-on-Medlock. In 1978 the Greater Manchester Council purchased the earliest part of the former Liverpool Road Station from British Rail, which had been closed in 1975. The council paid the nominal sum of £1 for the site. The museum opened at this site on 15 September 1983, and later expanded to include the whole of the former station.[1]
The museum used to be located on Grosvenor St to the south of the city centre, and had close ties with UMIST, having mostly grown out of the Department of History of Science & Technology. In 1983, having obtained more funding and outgrown its former site, it moved and is now located on Castlefield, near the site of the original Roman fort in Manchester (Mamucium); it incorporates Liverpool Road Station (vacated by British Rail in 1975), one of the original termini of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the world's first passenger railway.
Exhibitions
Exhibits at the Museum of Science and Industry include:
Aircraft:
- A complete RAF Avro Shackleton, built locally at Chadderton and Woodford
- A Supermarine Spitfire
- A Hawker Hunter
Computing:
- A replica of the Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine
Locomotives:
- A replica of Erricson's Novelty with parts from the original locomotive of 1829.
- A British Rail Class 77 EM2 1.5 kV DC electric locomotive.
- A South African Railways GL class Garratt
A Connected Earth gallery that tells the history of communications in Manchester and the North West of England opened in October 2007.
Past exhibits include:
- Body Worlds 4 between 22 February and 29 June 2008[2]
- LMR 57 Lion Britain's oldest steamable locomotive
References
- ^ "History of the Museum — MOSI". Museum of Science and Industry. http://www.mosi.org.uk/about-us/history-of-the-museum. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- ^ MOSI. "BODY WORLDS 4: The Original Exhibition of Real Human Bodies". Archived from the original on 17 January 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080117001934/http://www.mosi.org.uk/what%27s-on/body-worlds. Retrieved 2009-06-14.
External links
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